Life is about to get a little bit more crazy and I didn’t want to let this milestone slip past without posting. Our Brady Boo turned 2 years old earlier this week and it’s so hard to believe how quickly he’s grown. The time has flown by faster than I imagined!
* You drink from a cup, but still will use sippys or straws if we have them. Sometimes your drinking becomes playtime, but you are doing great with it and becoming so independent!
* You can still be a picky eater at times, but you have gotten a lot better. You may boycott something at the beginning of a meal, but I think you’ve finally realized that it’s not going to get you a different meal because you usually will eventually cave and eat at least some of what’s on your plate.
* You sleep well at night – typically about 12-13 hours each night {bedtime at 7:30pm and wake up between 7:30-8:30am}. You wake up happy in the mornings and talk to yourself for quite a while before you get upset and cry for us to get you.
* You nap each day for about 1.5-2 hours – usually between 1:30-3:30pm.
* You are still wearing size 5 diapers.
* You are wearing some 18-24 months clothes, but I am transitioning you into 2T for the fall and winter. You have so many cute hand-me-downs from family and friends that I barely had to buy you anything for the colder weather. You did get some cute new clothes for your birthday and I can’t wait to see you in them once the colder weather decides to stay!
* You are a busy boy! You run all over and are quite a good climber. Thankfully, you don’t climb on the table anymore, but I see you climbing over and through almost everything else. You really have no fear, even on some of the big playground equipment where we play sometimes!
* You have 16 teeth, but I felt one of your 2 year molars coming in on the bottom. You still love trying to brush your teeth, although it’s mostly chewing at this point. I’ve caught you in the medicine cabinet before licking the toothpaste – yuck!
* You are doing much better with highchair manners. We have to remind you not to play with food, but it usually at least stays on your tray. 🙂
* You are doing really well with your speech therapy. You are definitely talking a lot more than when we started in May. We are working now on two-word and multiple-word phrases. You are getting there and overall, I’m very pleased with how you are progressing. My gut tells me that your cleft palate surgery isn’t going to be an issue with speech, but we will see. The therapist says she doesn’t hear any nasality that can be common with cleft palate children. Time will tell, but in the meantime, you really enjoy “playtime” with your therapist! 🙂
* Your hair is growing so fast now! It’s funny how it seemed like it took forever to finally come in, but now it seems like it’s always needing to be cut. I’m trying to teach myself how to cut it, but we’ll see how long that lasts and how much I can improve with practice.
* You love to play with anything and everything. You love your sister’s toys as much as your own. You play well by yourself too, which is nice when your sister is at preschool. You love playing with figurines, blocks, and you play with the train table every time we are at the Children’s Museum.
* You love your sister to death, but the two of you fight like cats and dogs too. It used to be you tormenting her and knocking over her blocks, but she is guilty much of the time as well.
* You love playing outside and are not afraid of the big sliding boards or swings. You will try most anything!
* You have been on the verge of the tantrum phase for a little while now. I hope it won’t get too bad before you grow out of it. There are times when you flop down when we are walking in parking lots or times when you run the opposite direction and hide from me, but I hope we’ll nip that in the bud more quickly once the new baby arrives. It’s hard to chase after you when I feel like I’m about to pop! I’m finding that timeouts in your crib work best.
* You still really love music and it’s caught you trying to sing some when we are driving in the car. You were doing this cute little dance to certain songs back in the summer, but you haven’t done that recently.
